Transforming traditional chord voicings and sequences into contemporary sounding jazz harmony

Quartal Harmony

This tutorial is about building the classic quartal harmony sound made famous by the likes of McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock etc using a starting point of 5 voicings - two sets of parallel voicings, and a 'joining' voicing as a link.

Quartal Harmony part 1 - 5 basic voicings to develop the classic Quartal sound

In this tutorial I talk about how to apply the concept to Dominant 7th, Major 7th and Minor 7th chords so you can start playing these voicings through chord sequences and standards etc rather than them just being a modal comping concept...

Mike Gorman

Quartal Harmony

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